Wire-stay-weaving device.



No! 660,668.' Patentedflct: 30, r900.

WIRE STAY WEAVING DEVICE.

(Application filed June 80, 1900.)

(No Model.)

Lia 22286120224080)? By (I) M01450! I! v (W11 PHOTO-LITHQ, wAsNmomu, ova UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES THOMPSON SWARTZ, OF NEBRASKA CITY, NEBRASKA, ASSIGNOR TO CHARLESA. VAN PELT, OF SAME PLACE.

WlRE-STAY-WEAVING DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 660,668, dated October30, 1900. Application filed June 80, 1900. Serial No. 22,224. (Nomodel.)

T to whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES THOMPSON SWARTZ, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Nebraska City, in the county of Otoe and State ofNebraska, have invented a new and useful Fence-Weaving Device, of whichthe following is a specification.

This invention relates to a novel fence-weaving device, and contemplatesthe organization :0 of a simple and inexpensive tool by the use of whichwire stays may be stretched between and wound upon the longitudinalwires or stringers of a fence with facility and despatch.

One of the objects of the invention is to produce a simple, device ofthis character by the manipulation of which the sections of the staylying between each pair of stringers may be subjected to considerabletension and a closely wound coil produced upon each stringer and whichmay be employed with equal facility for the weaving of straight,diagonal, or other forms of stays, whereby the construction of fences ofvarious designs is made possible.

Further objects of the invention are to facilitate the initialattachment of the stay to the top stringer or fence-wire withoutnecessity for the employment of a supplemental device and to constructthe wire-supporting spindle in a manner to prevent the displacement ofthe wire during the manipulation of the tool.

To the accomplishment of the several objects enumerated and others whichwill hereinafter more fully appear the invention 00111- prehends detailsof construction and arrangement hereinafter fully described,andcomprehended within the scope of the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of asection of wire fencing, showing the stringers connected by a stay wovenwith my device and also illustrating the weaving device in position tosimultaneously form a pair of coils at the beginning of the operation offorming a stay. Fig. 2 is an end view of the tool on a somewhat-enlargedscale and showing somewhat more clearly the relation of the tool to thestringers and stay- 50 wire in that position of the tool illustrated inFig. 1. Fig. 3 is a view similar to Fig. 2,

showing the top loop of the "stay completed and the tool advanced to thestringer next below and in the act of forming a coil thereon. Fig. 4 isa detail perspective view of the tool. Fig. 5 is a View serving toillustrate the manner of manipulation of the tool to increase thetension on the stay during the formation of the coil.

Referring to the numerals of reference employed to designatecorresponding parts and structural features in the several views, 1indicates a fence-post, and 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 indicate a series ofhorizontal wires or stringers connected to the postin any ordinarymanner.

7 indicates a wire stay of the form produced by the manipulation of mytool and comprehending a stay-loop 8, formed by looping the stay-wireover the top stringer 2 and securing the extremity 9 of the wire andalso the coin 7o cident intermediate portion of the wire to the stringer3 by a double coil 10. From the double coil 10 the wire is advanced toor coiled upon each successive stringer until the stay is completed. Ihave described the construction of the stay with some particularity inorder that the succeeding description of the construction and operationof the tool may be more clearly understood.

The stay-weaving tool comprehending the subject-matter of my inventionis composed of a metal shank 11, having a handle 12 located at one endof the shank and extending at right angles thereto. The end of the shankopposite the handle is provided with an openended slot 13, whichconstitutes an elongatedsocket for the reception of the stringers of thefence, so that when the device is applied to a stringer, as shown inFig. lot the drawings, the handle 12 will lie normally substano tiallyparallel with the stringer. Inasmuch as it is necessary and desirableduring the manipulation of the tool to throw the handle out of its trueparallel relation with the adjacent stringer, the slotted or bifurcatedend 14 5 of the shank 11 is deflected or curved slightly out of theplane of the shank toward the side from which the handle 12 extends.

15 indicates the spindle of the tool, extending from the shank 11substantially parallel with the handle 12 and tapered toward its outerend 16, which is curved toward the handle, as shown, to constitute aguard, preventing the accidental displacement of a coil" 17 of stay-wirewound upon the spindle,as shown in Fig. 1, and designed to be paid outduring the formation of the stay. Intermediate of and preferably aboutmid way between the spindle and the slot 13 the shank 11 is pierced byan eye or opening 18 for the reception of the extremity of thestay-wire, as will be described, the axis of said eye being parallelwith the spindle.

The weaving of a fence-stay is accomplished by the followingmanipulation of the tool: The coil 17 of stay-wire is first placed uponthe spindle 15, after which a short length of the wire is drawn from thespindle, and the bifurcated end 14of the tool is slipped into engagingposition with the stringer 3, which, as shown, is that stringer lyingbelow the top stringer of the fence. The short length of wire which hasbeen unwound from the spindle is now passed in front of the stringer 3and is passed behind and over the top stringer 2 to form the stay-loop8, after which the extremity of the wire is passed through the eye 18 inthe shank from the outsidethat is to say, from the side opposite thespindle. The operator now grasps the handle and rotates the tool aroundthe stringer 3 in the direction of the arrow in the several figures. Theeffect of thismanipulation is to cause the end of the wire and also thatportion of the wire lying immediately opposite the stringer 3 to bewound upon said stringer in adouble coil until the wire end 9 has beenconsumed, and thereby released from the eye 18. The stay-loop 8 will nowhave been formed and coiled at both ends upon the stringer 3, from whichthe tool is now released and advanced to the-next lower stringer, ashort length of the stay-wire being obviously uncoiled from the spindleto connect the stringers 3 and 4c. The tool is then rotated, as beforeindicated, around the stringer 4: to form a short close coil thereon,after which it is advanced to each succeeding stringer until the entirestay is woven upon the fence and severed from the coil of wire 17 uponthe spindle unless said coil shall have contained only sufficient wirefor the formation of a single stay. Attention is called to the fact thatgreat tension is obtained upon the stay-wire, because the device isfulcrumed upon the stringer precisely at that point where thestay-coilis formed; also, that the tool having a single point ofattachment to the stringer and having its engaged end deflected awayfrom the stay-wire may be raised by a slight twist of the device-that isto say, by throwing the outer endof the handle slightly nearer thestringer during the rotation of the tool-to augment the direct ten sionwhich the tool exerts upon the wire by urging the side'of the shankagainst the coil" as the latter is being formed in order to form a morecompact retaining coil upon each stringer.

From the foregoing it will be observed that I have produced astay-wire-weaving device of simple and inexpensive construction whichmaybe quicklyaud conveniently manipulated to form vertical, diagonal, orother stays upon wire fences; out while the present embodiment of theinvention is believed at this time to be preferable I wish to bedistinctly understood as reserving the right to effect such structuralmodifications as may be comprehended within the scope of the protectionprayed.

What I claim is 1. A wire-stay-weaving device comprising a shank havinga bifurcated end,and a haudle extending at right angles to the shankfrom its opposite end, a spindle extending from the shank parallel withthe handle, the bifurcated end of said shank being deflected beyond theside of the shank from which the spindle and handle extend, and saidshank being provided with an eye having its axis parallel with thespindle and located between said spindle and the bifurcated end of theshank.

2. A Wire-stay-weaving device comprising a shank having a bifurcatedend, and a ham dle extending at right angles to the shank from itsopposite end, a spindle extending from the shank parallel with thehandle and having its outer end deflected toward the handle to form aguard, the bifurcated end of said shank being deflected beyond the sideof the shank from which the spindle and handle extend, and said shankbeing provided with an eye having its axis parallel with the spindle andlocated between said spindle and the bifurcated end of the shank.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixedmy signature in the presence of two witnesses.

JAMES THOMPSON SWARTZ.

Witnesses WM. SPEAR, FRANK MCCARTNEY.

